Editorial

When Nigeria’s former head of state, Gen.Yakubu Gowon, recently chaired the 50th Anniversary of the Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigeria (MLSCN), and decried the increasing rate of quackery in the practice of medical laboratory, […]

There is need to invest more in safety equipment The Harmattan haze has announced its arrival and is gradually creeping and putting people and businesses at the risk of fire disasters across the country. Already, […]

…I have done enough research to show that the tethering of our economic fortune to crude oil is totally unnecessary. Another research says that indeed we did not suffer from dutch disease, because more money […]

It is most disheartening that we as Ijaws and Niger Deltans have learnt nothing from the unfortunate attrition we connived and collaborated in, that led to the fall of the Dr. Goodluck Jonathan administration, which […]

As I was saying in part one of this offering last week, Sen. John Owan Enoh is undoubtedly on a rescue mission as far as the 2019 Cross River State governorship contest is concerned. For […]

With the official lifting of the ban on open campaigning, almost every nook and cranny of the country is getting the much-touted democracy dividends that over the years had remained elusive. Areas whose representatives and […]

FOLLOWING the Metele disaster in which 23 (according to the Nigerian Army) and 118 soldiers (according to independent sources) lost their lives and scores wounded, the Federal Government and the Armed Forces responded with defiance […]

The CBN’s Monetary Policy Committee met on November 21-22, 2018, but as usual avoided the shortest and easiest path to turning the 2018 Federal Budget (running for a course of 12 months from late June) […]

NOT for the first time, the nexus between prison congestion and the role of judges, who arbitrarily order the detention of defendants, has returned to national consciousness. Like his predecessors, the incumbent Chief Justice of […]

Trapped in the morass of a toxic privatisation, the Nigerian power sector is in dire need of a reversal of fortunes. Five years into the ownership swap deal, the promised gains of massive injection of […]

Nigeria’s economic planners may be having a bleak Christmas this year if they have any compunction left in them. It seems to be that down season once again when the world’s crude oil prices begin […]

In an era where the costs of quality education appear to be rising exponentially, the Federal Government is to be commended for introducing an insurance scheme to cover students, buildings and other infrastructure in its […]

Federal Government was reported last week, to be planning to sell electricity to Burkina Faso __ a neighbouring West African country. This rather shocking and disturbing information was revealed by Managing Director of Mainstream Energy […]

Perhaps someone other than yours truly is beginning to be seriously concerned whether this Nigerian project is working or will continue to work. The recent concern has to do with the former president, Goodluck Ebele […]

The surging tide of fears and apprehensions by concerned citizens with regards to the possibility of the Prof. Mahmood Yakubu-led Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct free, fair and credible elections come 2019 cannot […]

For the fourth time, President Muhammadu Buhari has refused to assent the 2018 Electoral Amendment bill passed by the National Assembly. Sources at the National Assembly confirmed that the president refused to assent the bill […]